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The all-female planning committee for the USA Missions-sponsored Women in Ministry Conference has chosen the theme, “Affirming ONE another,” in keeping with the conference mission statement, and the biennial theme of General Overseer Mark L. Williams.

The conference is scheduled for August 20-22, 2015 at the North Cleveland Church of God (Dixon Chapel), and will feature two nights and two half days of inspiration, information, worship, and interaction for women who are engaged in any aspect of ministry—pastors, pastor’s wives, Christian education ministers, music ministers, counselors, youth and children’s ministers, and others.

Earlier this year Church of God Communications released a new downloadable “app” for smartphones which offers several innovative features for churches, pastors, and laypersons.

Each day around the world, children are exposed to numerous diseases because they are walking, running and playing barefooted. It only takes one scrape or cut to allow bacteria to enter the bloodstream creating a perfect storm of ill health among the most vulnerable -children.

Church of God World Missions Director Tim Hill and Assistant Director John Childers are happy to announce another ‘Year of the Missionary’ disbursement to Church of God Career Missionaries.

Church of God Women’s Discipleship is gearing up for the first international Church of God women’s conference in six years. Infusion…Energize Your Soul, will be held October 2-4, 2015 in Atlanta.

On Sunday, June 28 a fire started along the Wenatchee River in eastern Washington State and moved up a steep bank to the south. Over the next two hours it would spread quickly in the direction of the city of Wenatchee. With strong winds and dry fuel due to a low snow fall in the mountains the previous winter it overtook all efforts to stop it and reached the outskirts, an upscale neighborhood called Broadview. Residents were evacuated and a Red Cross evacuation center was set up at the high school in East Wenatchee across the Columbia River.